Liberal Leader Mark Carney has condemned the actions of Liberal staffers who placed campaign buttons featuring inflammatory slogans at a conservative conference last week, describing their bid to sow discord within the rival party as “totally unacceptable.”
Liberal election staffers planted buttons featuring sayings like “Free Alberta” and “Lock up Justin” at last week’s Canada Strong and Free Network conference held at a hotel in downtown Ottawa. The conference, previously known as the Manning Conference, was held from April 9 to April 13. Its aim is to give conservative Canadians an opportunity to discuss policy proposals and build connections.
The Liberal staff members managed to gain access to the conference and strategically placed the buttons in locations where they would be discovered by attendees before heading to a bar near Parliament Hill, where they were overheard boasting about what they had done by a Conservative party staff member and a CBC reporter….